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Whether you're migrating from analog to digital, realigning your business model, or looking for ways to repackage your content to reach multiple audiences, IBM has the solutions to help you speed past your competitors.

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Business continuity infrastructure solution from IBM
Align your IT investments with your business objectives. Minimize downtime and streamline recovery processes. Customers expect your organization to run without service interruption. Don't disappoint them. We can help with business continuity strategies and planning for high availability and recovery.
 
Consumer analytics from IBM
Media companies must recognize and act on what makes each consumer special. To do so, they must first have knowledge about their customers. Capture and understand information in order to make swift business decisions. Consumer analytics from IBM can help convert knowledge of user behavior into competitive advantage.
 
Digital media center from IBM
Go to air faster. Reduce production costs. Strategically acquire, manage and distribute media by transforming production from analog to digital so that you can deliver your programming more efficiently. Expedite workflow, gain tighter control of your video assets and increase viewer satisfaction with higher quality production.
 
Digital workflow transformation for media networks from IBM
To survive in a world where consumers demand content on the air, online, and even through their phones and mp3 players, moving from analog to digital is a foregone conclusion. Digital workflow solutions from IBM help make the transition efficient and effective, making content available when and where your customers demand.
 
Finance and accounting for media and entertainment from IBM
The larger your media company grows, the more complex your financial systems and processes become. IBM can help assess your current infrastructure, give you valuable insight into business performance and help provide on demand capabilities to help you manage your business more cost effectively.
 
Information technology research from IBM
Search video and audio files faster and more effectively. Encrypt digital content to protect intellectual property. Expand multimedia storage capacity. Enable download and burn options. Discover how IBM Research can help your media and entertainment business meet the challenges of today's multimedia world.
 
Intellectual property management for media and entertainment
Are you maximizing your catalog? If your processes aren't organized, you might miss out on money-making opportunities. IBM can redesign your processes and combine your information into one consolidated system, to help better identify and sell your intellectual properties, boost profits and streamline daily operations.
 
IP multimedia subsystem solutions from IBM
Leverage IP multimedia subsystem solutions as you transition to next-generation networks and triple/quad play services. Deploy new revenue-generating services cost effectively and flexibly. Begin the transition to a common, scalable service creation and delivery environment. Maximize innovation and time to market.
 
IT resource optimization from IBM
Optimize your IT environment with a flexible infrastructure that is easier to manage and upgrade, and less expensive to run. Reduce IT management complexity. Decrease manual errors. And respond to changing business demands. Implement cutting-edge technologies in virtualization, automation, orchestration and provisioning.
 
Linux solution for media and entertainment from IBM
High powered computing. Significantly lower costs. Linux™ has captured the attention of the media and entertainment industry...from the illustrator in the studio to the marketing manager promoting a new title, and the IT professional managing a myriad of technologies across the enterprise.
 
Media Hub Solution Framework
Make better use of your current enterprise technology investments. The Media Hub Solution Framework is designed to provide media and entertainment companies a new approach to help reduce costs and get new products and services to consumers more rapidly through improved production and distribution capabilities.
 
SCM for media and entertainment from IBM
Eroding growth and margins. Revenue model confusion. Distribution chaos due to piracy concerns. IBM can help you face the supply chain challenges that threaten your growth and profitability with the use of technology and collaborative processes.
 
Server consolidation for media and entertainment from IBM
Does your media or entertainment business need to control the escalating cost of managing servers? IBM offers a server consolidation initiative to leverage media products, such as books, movies and other intellectual property. Increase efficiency in your back-end operations so you can focus on customer service initiatives.
 
Service delivery platform for cable multiple systems operators
Deliver innovative offerings and improve customer satisfaction. Support the rapid creation and delivery of new services rich with content, and manage these profit-making services across your enterprise. We can help you with cross-platform services delivered to variety of end-user devices with end-to-end service management.
 


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